I'm more concerned with "making the best possible film with the materials available" than trying to do exactly what Williams wanted. I'm adding music and even Calvert scenes when I think it becomes more entertaining that way.
As for the hands, those hands belong to the narrator. The shot that's in the Miramax cut also appears in the workprint (as a pencil test) without the hands, suggesting that Williams would have added the hands later, or dropped them out during that shot and brought them back in when needed.
So, the shot appears in my cut without the hands, since the hands were never finished, but the hands appear elsewhere ...
You should hold questions on things like that until seeing my cut!